Democrats on Sunday slammed Donald Trump's tactics of threatening punitive tariffs to extract concessions on immigration from Mexico, saying the US president was recklessly endangering ties to a major ally and trade partner.
"What the world is tired of, and what I am tired of, is a president who consistently goes to war, verbal war, with our allies," Democratic Senator Bernie Sanders said on CNN's "State of the Union."
"We should not be confronting them every other day."
"People can disagree with the tactics (but) Mexico came to the table with real proposals," he said on "Fox News Sunday."
"We have an agreement that, if they implement, will be effective." -
"I think the president has completely overblown what he reports to have achieved," he said on ABC's "This Week."
"They might have accelerated the timetable, but by and large the president achieved nothing except to jeopardize the most important trading relationship that the United States of America has."
That said, the Wisconsin lawmaker added, "I think he used them as leverage in this situation brilliantly."
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, speaking Saturday in the border city of Tijuana, also credited the agreement, saying it meant "there will not be an economic or financial crisis in Mexico."